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08-15-2007, 01:16 AM
Hello, I'm not sure if this has ever been brought up before but I would like to discuss it and hear other peoples opinions on this matter.
Throughout history there have been, as Carl Sagan said, "Thousands of confident religions, ideologies , and economic doctrines". I want to focus on the word confident. It is not unknown that every single religion that has ever existed has thought they are the correct religion. Religion first started before civilization even started. It was thought that ancient people looked at the sky and saw lightning, or felt a gust of wind on their faces and then presumed that there must be some guiding force behind this natural occurence. For Greeks it was Zeus creating the lightning, for Romans Jupiter, and so on and so forth.
We can draw a thorough undertanding of how they felt, but today we understand that lightning is a natural occurence and that there isn't some man in the sky throwing down lightning bolts as punishment to us. We also don't blame Poseidon if there is a storm at sea while we are on a boat.
So we know that religion has been around since the beginning of civilization. Just today we have very different invisible men punishing the wicked, such as Allah. It would seem that throughout our history science has come to explain the things we thought unexplainable. So my main question to the common theist is a very simple one to answer. How do you know that the supreme being you worship will become no more than mythology in a thousand years?
Once the Roman and Greek Gods had been proven wrong and we realised the natural occurences around us did not need irrational explaining we threw them out. But why is there this incessant need for there to be an irrational explanation for something that we know someday will be fully explained by science?
"Indeed, from leopard spots to pregancy to the shape of the earth, religion has been proved wrong, wrong, wrong."
EDIT: I spelled supremely wrong, retard right here.
Throughout history there have been, as Carl Sagan said, "Thousands of confident religions, ideologies , and economic doctrines". I want to focus on the word confident. It is not unknown that every single religion that has ever existed has thought they are the correct religion. Religion first started before civilization even started. It was thought that ancient people looked at the sky and saw lightning, or felt a gust of wind on their faces and then presumed that there must be some guiding force behind this natural occurence. For Greeks it was Zeus creating the lightning, for Romans Jupiter, and so on and so forth.
We can draw a thorough undertanding of how they felt, but today we understand that lightning is a natural occurence and that there isn't some man in the sky throwing down lightning bolts as punishment to us. We also don't blame Poseidon if there is a storm at sea while we are on a boat.
So we know that religion has been around since the beginning of civilization. Just today we have very different invisible men punishing the wicked, such as Allah. It would seem that throughout our history science has come to explain the things we thought unexplainable. So my main question to the common theist is a very simple one to answer. How do you know that the supreme being you worship will become no more than mythology in a thousand years?
Once the Roman and Greek Gods had been proven wrong and we realised the natural occurences around us did not need irrational explaining we threw them out. But why is there this incessant need for there to be an irrational explanation for something that we know someday will be fully explained by science?
"Indeed, from leopard spots to pregancy to the shape of the earth, religion has been proved wrong, wrong, wrong."
EDIT: I spelled supremely wrong, retard right here.